The Mini Paceman is the eighth addition to the ever-increasing/increasingly-confusing Mini family. Now, try and stay with me here; the Paceman is the smaller, three-door version of the Countryman. Which essentially makes it the smaller, three-door version of the larger five-door version of the original smaller three-door Mini hatch. Dunno about you, but it makes […]
Category: First Drives
Once upon a time, the idea of a “sporty” SUV would have been laughable. The concept of a sports car and a SUV were about as diametrically opposed as it was possible to get in the world of cars, so the idea of combining the properties of the two would have simply been ridiculous and […]
In October last year we bought you the First Drive of the new mega-hot hatch from BMW, the M135i. That was in Australia. Now we are proud to bring you the very first drive of the M135i on New Zealand soil. OVERSTEER has driven the car more than 1,500km from Auckland to Queenstown over two […]
The Toyota RAV4 has come a long way since its inception as the first of the small crossover SUVs based on a car platform – the Corolla to be exact. Many followed and the market for such vehicles exploded globally, but particularly here in New Zealand. The RAV4’s success was almost assured. Now Toyota launches […]
Here in New Zealand all things wagon-y in the Euro sector tend to be utterly dominated by Audi. This is something that really rips BMW’s and Mercedes’ undies, as they simply cannot make inroads into Audi’s wagon dominance. BMW are giving it another go, with the new wagon version of the sexy 3 Series. But […]
The Hyundai Santa Fe has proven itself to be a very popular model in New Zealand, particularly in the last year of the last model – can the new one continue the sales success?We go on a stunning drive from Queenstown to Aoraki Mount Cook and back to find out… What is it? Pretty much […]
The Mazda6 has grown up – both dimensionally and dynamically – so is it still as good a steer as it has always been? We have always been fans of the 6’s abilities here at OVERSTEER, so we leapt at the chance to head to Tauranga to check out the new one. What is it? Well, if […]
The Mercedes-Benz A-Class was once a funny little people mover-shaped car that fell over at the sight of a Moose, but now it isn’t. It is a far, far better car than it has ever been before too. We head to Melbourne to check it out. What is it? This is almost certainly the question […]
The Volkswagen Golf has long been the five-door hatch benchmark and, as such, played in the upper-levels of the price range for the segment. But now the Golf goes on the attack with drastically reduced prices and increased spec. We spend a day thrashing a couple of them at the Golf 7 launch. What is […]
New engines, improved interiors and a transmission we have been waiting for (in a Land Rover, at least) were the big news from a low-key Land Rover launch today. The Freelander gets a brilliant petrol engine that will seem strangely familiar and the Discovery gets a brilliant 8-speed auto transmission. We spent a day sampling […]
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